Gimbi

Gimbi is a city in western Ethiopia. placed in the West Welega region of the Oromia vicinity, it has a latitude and longitude of 9°10′N 35°50′E with an elevation among 1845 and 1930 meters above sea level. it's far the administrative center of Gimbi woreda. Gimbi has had phone provider from some point among 1954 and 1967. Iron had traditionally been produced within the vicinity. A North Korean team of experts investigated the deposits inside the mid-1980s.

An Ethiopian Orthodox church changed into constructed in Gimbi around 1895. through the Thirties, Gimbi became one of the most essential markets of Welega Province and a meeting point of roads. The extension of the main street to Nekemte had not but reached as far as Gimbi by way of 1935. A faculty for the blind changed into opened in Gimbi by the Western Synod of the Mekane Yesus Church in 1971. however, via 1981 all Evangelical church buildings within the neighboring area had been closed, except the only inside the town itself.